Imagine how more focus and funding would help us mine the many white-space opportunities in medical physics that will fascinate and beguile researchers and hopefully lead to scientific breakthroughs and innovative companies that transform and extend human life....
After a series of experiments, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineering PhD student Hayley Boigenzahn and John Yin, a professor of chemical and biological engineering and a founding faculty member of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, can explain how one of the potentially crucial early steps...
We haven’t tried to recapture all of 2022. Instead, we set about sifting and winnowing down the thousands of photos taken this year to bring you this time capsule of 49 images. We chose some for their stories and surprises, some for the rush or...
The "nuclear nerd" is Miss America. Miss Wisconsin Grace Stanke, who gives herself that title in her Instagram bio as a nod to her career aspirations, was given a new title Thursday night: Miss America 2023....
An engineering physics team using carbon nanotubes to build armor that’s stronger than Kevlar and a cross-disciplinary team making it less painful to diagnose a debilitating autoimmune disorder have taken top honors from WARF....
The National Science Foundation has released its 2021 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison has again ranked eighth in the national research rankings for public and private universities. UW–Madison ranked eighth in the last survey covering the...
A new book tells the life story of Amy Gannon, a Madison business leader and advocate for female entrepreneurs who died in 2019 in a helicopter crash while on vacation in Hawaii. Gannon, who was 47 at her death, co-founded the nonprofit Doyenne Group in...
Nimble Therapeutics Inc., a leading peptide therapeutics company, today announced they have achieved discovery milestones for two programs partnered with a large pharma company. ...
Exact Sciences Corp., a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today shared initial clinical validation data for its breast cancer radiation signature, Profile for the Omission of Local Adjuvant Radiotherapy (POLAR), at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium....
Three University of Wisconsin–Madison professors — Susan Hagness, Jo Handelsman and Justin Williams — have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors....
Andy Richards, who has been D2P director since April 2018, is set to retire in May 2023. A search committee to fill the position is being formed and will be chaired by Aaron Olver, managing director of University Research Park....
According to the handful of industry leaders who took the stage at “State of the Sectors,” an annual panel on economic trends hosted by the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Madison’s economic prospects aren’t dismal at all....